Sam received his Bobcat badge at the Pack Meeting today. Sam loves cub scouts, I haven’t exactly figured out why, but he really seems to love it. He made a “rocket” racer this week and flew it. He did almost all of the work, I put on the propeller. It turns out I put it on backwards. I guess I should have let him to that too.
Another year for the FLL Team. The Exploded Robots this year. Again, I think the kids did better than they scored in the tournament. For example, they got docked for not being excited about science and engineering. However, when Elizabeth asked them what they wanted to be when they grow up, the answers were, “Chemistry”, “Engineer”, and the like.
This year, Margaret talked to the Town Council for the project. The kids met “Citizen Ray”. I think that this was the real value of the program, learning how things work, but that kind of stuff doesn’t seem to count in the tournament. Oh well, I guess our kids will just have to learn stuff and be happy with that.
I took my fancy new camera and took some pictures of Katy diving. I got a few dives at 8 fps and a few HD videos. Katy is getting better at diving. She is also fearless in the eyes of the coach. Lots of the other girls were not doing dives because they were scared. Katy just got right up and did a dive without hesitation. She later told me that it was really scary and she was shaking for 30 minutes after, but she did it anyway. I don’t know what the dives are, but she is loving it. I think the dive she did was a comquat zerflatz, but i could have the name wrong.